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Title	1794, Run away notice for Leonard of Plattekill, N.Y.
Creator	Warner, Matthias
Date.Original	1794-07-10
Publisher.Original	Rising Sun Newspaper
Description	Notice dated July 10, 1794 offering a ten dollar reward for the return of a 19 year old slave named Leonard. Leonard ran away from Mathias Warner of Plattekill, NY.
Subject.LCSH	Slaveholders
Subject.TGM	Slavery Fugitive slaves Clippings
Subject.Local	Warner family
Personal Name	Leonard (slave of Matthias Warner) Warner, Matthias
Location	Plattekill - Ulster County - New York
HRVH Topic	African Americans
Language	eng
Format.Original	newspaper clipping
Resource Type	Text
Source	Rising Sun Newspaper, August 8, 1794
Resource Identifier	Aug8_1794_10DollarReward.jpg
Publisher.Digital	Historic Huguenot Street
Date.Digital	2007
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Exhibit Homepage	http://www.hrvh.org/exhibit/aa07
Digital.Collection	African American Presence in the Hudson Valley
Rights	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial uses of the item may be subject to fees and restrictions. Please contact the holding institution for information.
Transcript	Ten Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscriber on the 30th day of June, a negro man named LEONARD nineteen years of age, about five feet six inches high, had on when he went away, a home- spun grey coat, a blue cloth veil, a pair of yellow stript [sic] trowsers [sic], and a pair of white woolen stockings, a pair of new shoes and steel buckels [sic], Any person that will take up said negro, and return him to his master, or confine him in any goal, shall be entitled to the above reward of ten dollars and all reasonable charges paid. Mathias Warner Platte-kill, Ulster County, July 10, 1794.
Metadata Creator	Stessin-Cohn, Susan

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